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Offshoring of Services : A Review of the Literature and Organizing Framework
Pisani, Niccolò; Ricart, J. E. - 2021
Offshoring of services (OS), commonly defined as the international relocation of service activities that companies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247363
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Overseas outsourcing by financial institutions: Assessing the legal and regulatory landscape
Finkel, Robert; Brown, Winthrop - In: Journal of Financial Transformation 8 (2003), pp. 73-81
As the number of financial institutions that are moving operations overseas has grown, so has the attention of regulators. This article looks at some of the regulations that financial institutions need to be aware of when considering moving operations overseas and some guidelines on how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518329
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Business environment, managerial strategies, and the allocation of decision-making authorities in Swiss Firms
Beckmann, Michael; Armbruster, Kathrin - 2010
introduction of a diversi ca- tion or an outsourcing strategy, are expected to result in a shift towards a more centralized or … outsourcing on a decentralized decision rights assignment, whereas a diversi cation strategy yields no in uence. The conclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390648
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Outsourcing HR Functions– An Explanatory Approach to Firms’ (Non-Existent)Demand for Personnel Services
Alewell, Dorothea; Bähring, Katrin; Canis, Anne; … - Sonderforschungsbereich Gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen …
This paper develops an explanatory approach to the outsourcing of Human Resource (HR)functions and the resulting demand … management). Startingfrom the deficits of approaches that currently dominate the outsourcing debate (costaccounting approach …, transaction cost approach, resource-based view of the firm), a modifiedand expanded explanation of outsourcing HR management …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867725
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Business environment, managerial strategies, and the allocation of decision-making authorities in Swiss firms
Beckmann, Michael; Armbruster, Kathrin - 2010 - Preliminary version: March 2010
introduction of a diversification or an outsourcing strategy, are expected to result in a shift towards a more centralized or … outsourcing on a decentralized decision rights assignment, whereas a diversification strategy yields no influence. The conclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662481
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Business environment, managerial strategies, and the allocation of decision-making authorities in Swiss Firms
Armbruster, Kathrin; Beckmann, Michael - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum, Universität Basel - 2010
introduction of a diversica-tion or an outsourcing strategy, are expected to result in a shift towards a more centralizedor … het-erogeneity are applied. Estimates using all three approaches show a highly signicantpositive impact of outsourcing on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025080
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R&D (re)location: A bird's eye (re)view
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; … - 2008
The paper builds a framework for the analysis of research and development (R&D) offshoring and outsourcing that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273492
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Global sourcing of complex production processes
Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
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Creating the 24-Hour Knowledge Factory
Gupta, Amar; Hou, Luting; Hedberg, Taylor; Prendergast, … - In: Information systems management 29 (2012) 2, pp. 100-111
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009552332
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Outsourcing and employment : a decomposition approach
Koller, Wolfgang; Stehrer, Robert - 2008
In this paper we study the employment effects of changes in the levels and patterns of outsourcing in the Austrian … components. Outsourcing is modelled as changes in the shares of domestically produced intermediates. For this some further … indirect effects of changes in the levels and structures of outsourcing.Second, the framework takes account of all 60 sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392237